Charis Michaels > Quotes

“He wouldn’t tell her that he could barely sit across the seat from her without touching her. He wouldn’t tell her that he had a very damaging habit of wanting things he could not have, and he wanted her very badly indeed. He wouldn’t tell her that he only survived this habit by removing himself from the object of his desire.”
― Charis Michaels, Say Yes to the Princess

“Fear had been her companion since the age of fifteen; it took the shape of bumps in the night, and mob-ruled crowds, and men who followed her. It was miserable to be afraid, but not miserable enough to stop trying to break free.”
― Charis Michaels, Say Yes to the Princess

“I want, Killian thought, the desire as powerful as it was simple. I want her to look at me again. I want to see her face. I want her.”
― Charis Michaels, Say Yes to the Princess

“If she wanted something, she told him how to give it to her. It was provoking. It was . . . arousing. He was a little aroused by her ordering him about, and this was the opposite of the plan.”
― Charis Michaels, Say Yes to the Princess

“She would fit together all the mismatched pieces of Killian Crewes and discover why in God’s name she enjoyed him so very much. Because honestly, he was a lot of work.”
― Charis Michaels, Say Yes to the Princess

“She was never yours, he told himself. So very little, he reminded himself, is yours.”
― Charis Michaels, Say Yes to the Princess